Education Support Champion (TA)
Kingsdown School, Swindon, SN2 7SHThis job expired on 28 February 2022 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 February 2022 at 9am
Date listed
11 February 2022
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- G4: £18,933 - £19,312 G5: £19,312 - £20,092
Actual salary
- G4: £13,122 - £13,384 G5: £13,384 - £13,925
Education Support Champion (TA) job summary
Part Time, Term Time plus TD Days
Salary: Salary (to be confirmed based on experience)
G4 – FTE £18,933 - £19,312 (Actual salary £13,122 - £13,384)
G5 – FTE £19,312 - £20,092 (Actual salary £13,384 - £13,925)
Start date: As soon as possible
The Governing Body, Trust and Headteacher seek to appoint a highly motivated person to join our Inclusion and Intervention Department as an Education Support Champion.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a fundamental role in removing a key barrier to learning and raise aspirations amongst our students. Working alongside a highly motivated team within the Inclusion Hub, you will have responsibility for planning and delivering targeted interventions to identified students who need additional support. Good organisational skills, flexible working practices, patience, persistence and the ability to build working relationships with students, staff and parents is essential.
The working pattern is 30 hours per week (8.15am – 3.10pm Monday and 8.25am – 3.10pm Tuesday to Friday, with the exception of every second Friday finishing at 1.20pm). Term time only, plus Teacher Development days.
In January 2018 we set the new vision – “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and a new mission statement – “to champion each and every student”.
Kingsdown School is at a very exciting stage in its history, in January 2020 Kingsdown was graded as ‘Good’ in every single area inspected by Ofsted, a few of the positive quotes are:
“Leaders provide a curriculum that is broad and balanced. A notable strength of the school is its care for pupils facing particular difficulties, the work the school does to support pupils’ personal development and well-being is good.”
“Children say they now feel safe and can learn without disruption.”
“The culture is strong and our shared vision for the future (is) ambitious.”
Our school is part of the River Learning Trust; our collective vision is to be a Trust where pupils and staff thrive in schools which demonstrate:
•all-round education, academic success, lifelong learning and strength of character
•sustainable continuous improvement; no school standing still
•all schools being good and outstanding, or improving rapidly
•collaboration that is raising standards, and reducing workload
• where pupils, staff, parents and communities value all we do to support the best possible outcomes and experiences for our children and young people
For any enquires, please contact recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk or telephone the HR Department on 01793 837087. Applications will only be accepted on a Kingsdown School application form via eteach.com.
If you would like to arrange a visit or telephone call with Emma Leigh-Bennett (Headteacher), please contact Jude Carter, PA to the Headteacher - jcarter@kingsdownschool.co.uk. If you have not heard from us shortly after the closing date please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Closing date for completed applications is Monday 28th February 2022 at 9.00am. Interview date – to be confirmed. No agencies please. CVs will not be accepted. Kingsdown School is a mixed 11-16 Academy situated on the eastern outskirts of Swindon.
This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.
The River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. All staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/latest employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. You should contact the school if you are unsure if this role includes regulated activity relevant to children. For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the link in the Job Information pack.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Kingsdown School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 990 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kingsdown School website
- Email address
- recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01793837087
Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best teachers.
Thank you for taking an interest in working with us at Kingsdown School. You are joining us at a very exciting time in our school’s history. At the end of January 2020, we had a two day Ofsted Inspection and were judged to be Good in all five categories under the new framework. This marked the end to over a decade of being judged Requires Improvement.
Kingsdown is a school that has been on a transformational journey. We had a two year P8 trend of -0.50 and this year we secured a P8 score of +0.04. We have also recently been shortlisted for the TES Secondary School of the Year award. Along with the Ofsted judgement, this transformation is truly wonderful for our students, our school and community. Now we are looking for talented and experienced colleagues to join our team as we journey to Outstanding.
Our vision for our school is “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and our mission statement is that we “champion each and every student”.
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